Portrait of a Man, 1647, Oil on wood, Oval, 26 1/4 x 21 5/8 in. (66. 7 x 54. 9 cm), Paintings, Bartholomeus van der Helst (Dutch, Haarlem, born ca. 1612?15, died 1670 Amsterdam), In 1872 Henry James described this picture as 'the perfect prose of portraiture'. . . in van der Helst's 'unmitigated verity you detect no faintest throb of invention blossoming into style and straggling across the line which separates a fine likeness from a fine portrait